Jennifer Liu

3 days ago | nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu

This story is part of CNBC Make It's Ditching the Degree series, where women who have built six-figure careers without a bachelor's degree reveal the secrets of their success. Got a story to tell? Let us know! Email us at [email protected]. Shelley Oelrichs went to college hoping to become a teacher and basketball coach. But her plans changed when, two months before graduation, she learned she was pregnant and dropped out of school, married her husband and joined the workforce.

4 days ago | nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu

New grads are entering the workplace this summer, and they have mixed feelings about how prepared they are. Two in three recent college grads say they feel "fully ready" to communicate with their colleagues through email or instant messaging at work, while 59% feel good about making conversation in person, according to the latest Handshake report on the class of 2025.

6 days ago | nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu

The question of "what do I wear to work?" has never been this hard to answer. The pandemic made it normal to wear pajamas and sweats while working from home, and casual dress followed workers as they returned to offices over the years. Naturally, corners of the internet have since lit up in debate over the appropriateness of crop tops, shorts and office sirens in the workplace. Social media, the internet and everyone you talk to will have a different idea of what appropriate workwear is.

2 weeks ago | nbcchicago.com | Jennifer Liu

New grads are entering the workforce, which means we're probably due for another conversation about how some bosses seem to despise Gen Z workers in the office. In recent years, CEOs have bemoaned that the youngest generation in the workforce, who are as old as 28 this year, don't want to work, are too casual, and are the most challenging generation to work with. Some leaders even go as far as saying they avoid hiring Gen Z workers.

2 weeks ago | nbcphiladelphia.com | Jennifer Liu

Nicky Hancock is an expert in hiring. As the chief growth officer at AMS, she helps 400 clients in 80 countries hire about 300,000 people a year. But she's started to notice one big red flag from job-seekers in the hiring process: "When you can see their whole application is written by AI," Hancock tells CNBC Make It.To be fair, she notes, it's crucial today's young applicants demonstrate they have at least a basic command of AI, if not more advanced knowledge for a technical role.